The Living Ancestor

Hello my friends... In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we are going to take a deep dive into the intersection between ancestral patterns & health, a stem that branches from what could be called ‘Ancestral Medicine’. Ancestral medicine is a term I originally encountered through the work of Daniel Foor’s and his teachings on ancestral healing; however in this podcast, I refocus the medi...

In this episode of the The Living Ancestor podcast, we explore a dimension of ancestor work that often receives far less attention than healing, clearing, repair or the resolution of inherited burdens: the retrieval of blessings. Drawing from both traditional understandings of the ancestral and my own experiences in practice, I explore the idea that the ancestors are not only a source of unfinishe...

In this episode of The Living Ancestor podcast, we explore the quiet but powerful ways the Deep Ancestors continue to shape our lives beneath the threshold of conscious thought. Through personal stories of instinct, reflex, movement, and animal behavior, this conversation traces the living continuity between the ancient world and the modern human nervous system. What if the ancestors are not only...

The Living Ancestor Podcast In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast, we explore the increasingly strange intersection between synchronicity, omens, divination, and the algorithmic architecture of the modern world. As AI-driven advertising grows more sophisticated, the ancient human instinct to read signs and meaning from the world around us is colliding with systems specifically designed to...

In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast , I explore the inextricable link between ancestry and destiny , grounding an ancient metaphysical idea in a very practical, embodied way. I begin by situating destiny within older cosmologies that understood reality as multidimensional, inhabited by forces with agency, and animated by a soul that incarnates with an orientation and a potential. From t...

Destiny is not a destination. It is a lived process. In this episode of The Living Ancestor Podcast , I explore destiny through two complementary metaphors that help orient us toward it in a more embodied and functional way. The first is the ship in sail: destiny as conscious participation in a journey, requiring navigation, stewardship of resources, and active engagement with fate as terrain rath...

In this episode, I explore the ways in which we fetishize the ancestral in order to create a focal point of connection, and how that same touchstone can become limiting when it is mistaken for the whole of what the ancestral truly is. I begin by unpacking what a fetish actually means at its core: an orientation of consciousness, a container, a narrowing of vast forces into something we can relate...

What if the idea that we live in a simulation is less a ‘material reality’ and more a symptom of modern disconnection? It’s likely that those who feel the world is simulated have simply forgotten what it feels like to be ‘real.’ This episode examines the consequences of a loss of lived contact with reality: the fading of soul, body, and world into abstraction. Some live in the world as conscious,...

“By soul I mean, first of all, a perspective rather than a substance, a viewpoint toward things rather than a thing itself. This perspective is reflective; it mediates events and makes differences between ourselves and everything that happens. Between us and events, between the doer and the deed, there is a reflective moment — and soul-making means differentiating this middle ground.” - James Hill...

Your soul has innate and inherent ‘animal powers’ that belong to it, and they shape your response to life’s ongoing demand for choice. The constellation of our choices is character. Character is destiny. In this Living Ancestor episode, I return to the terrain of soul medicine, that living current of power held by, worked with, and transmitted by the soul. Up until now I’ve spoken of soul medicine...

In this episode, we explore one of the fundamental themes of becoming a ‘Living Ancestor’: orienting our lives toward ‘completion’. This expresses itself in small daily moments, all the way to the larger arc of completing the ritual of one's entire life. We touch on how resolving ‘open loops’ and familial karmic ties helps us prepare for death with a lighter heart. Unfinished business keeps us tet...

The Ancestors are either the wind at your back or a lead weight at your feet. In this podcast we explore how our Ancestors shape our fate, and thus by extension...our destinies . A big part of the message we inherit in modern culture is that of ‘individual choice’, which has wonderful gifts… and large gaps, for it misses how our lives occur in a continuum. In today's world devoid of practices that...

Have you ever heard of Kintsugi? It is the art of purposefully breaking pottery and repairing the cracks with gold. I can envision no metaphor better suited for describing the creative process. Creativity is not replicability. Creation is (in part) the filling of cracks with gold… our gold. In today’s podcast, we explore how critical it is to liberate ourselves from the relentless pursuit of perfe...

The concept of finding and following one's "North Star" is central to navigating fate and destiny. The North Star serves as an internal guiding light, representing a clear unifying direction in life. Metaphorically, it represents an inner sense of guidance analogous to the stable north star already in the sky: Polaris. As there is an outer sky, there is an inner sky. Just as the North Star aids na...

In today’s world, there is an idea that you can just eat ‘content articles’ for breakfast, get certified, and then go on to have a fulfilling practice regurgitating the same tired information. In this world, genuine articles are few and far between. It’s no surprise that imposter syndrome is so common as to be a household term. While most sources out there will try and sell you some kind of ‘worka...

In this episode, I explore offerings and sacrifice as ancient human technologies of relationship, exchange, and transformation. Across indigenous and traditional cultures, the giving of offerings is woven into how humans relate to land, spirits, gods, seasons, and one another. Offerings create balance, ease tension, express gratitude, and anchor us in time and place. At a deeper level, they speak...

In this episode, I explore fate, destiny, and free will through a deeply personal story that has shaped my life from infancy. I share how I was born into an African-rooted shamanic and divinatory tradition carried through my Cuban family, and how a long-form divination performed when I was a child became a reference point for who my life was “supposed” to be. From a young age, I was told I would b...

Myths all around the world tell us that fate and free will dance together in the ongoing genesis of life and death, and yet, fate, which is the circumstances, universal laws, and divine order already in place when we arrive, determines the context that one can even choose within. Different cultures have held either fate or free will as more important. Some cultures fully embrace fate, whereas othe...

Although it may not appear so at first glance, much of what drives people toward spirituality, personal development, and inner cultivation is a search for power. Not power as money or status, but the ability to actually affect reality: to heal, to release, to address what feels immovable, and to participate in shaping one’s life rather than being carried by it. In this episode, I explore power as...

One of the core themes running through this podcast is that the stories we attune to are actively shaping us. They shape posture, physiology, perception, and the possibilities we experience in daily life. No teaching is neutral. Every instruction, lesson, or piece of advice is anchored in a deeper story or cosmology, whether it is explicit or not. In this episode, I explore how teaching always tra...

What do fate, family ties, and Christmas trees have to do with each other? In this episode, I explore fate as the inherited circumstances we do not choose: family, culture, place, time, body, and tradition. Fate is not a mistake. It is the set of conditions we are born into and must contend with, and it is the raw material from which destiny is formed through conscious engagement. I look at family...

For those called to the path of the golden thread, understanding and embodying authentic authority is essential. Authentic authority is the specific power each of us carries to act in the world in alignment with soul, calling, and destiny. In this episode, I explore how every human being arrives with innate gifts, talents, and capacities meant to contribute to the greater whole. Like cells in a li...

Modern Western civilization places enormous value on freedom, and in America in particular, freedom has become a kind of brand. This love of freedom has spread widely, and in many ways, that is a beautiful thing. Freedom is one of my own core virtues. Yet not all expressions of freedom are purely beneficial. In this episode, I explore how certain modern ideas about freedom can actually obscure voc...

In this episode, I explore how having an opinion about everything actually diminishes our power in the world. I look at the modern pressure to constantly react, comment, and take a stance on every political event, war, or social issue, and how this demand to be perpetually opinionated often drains energy without creating real impact. Having an opinion does not automatically mean having insight, ex...

Discussions of free will are ancient, persistent, and unresolved. Human beings have been wrestling with the nature of choice, conditioning, and sovereignty for as long as we have records of thought itself. In this episode, I explore free will as the capacity to choose a direction that falls outside mechanical conditioning. I look at the layers of influence that shape us long before we are consciou...